Psalms 78:46

46 He gave their crops to the caterpillar and the fruit of their labor to the locust.

Psalms 78:46 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 78:46

He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar
A kind of locust, and the same with the locust in the next clause; for we read but of the locust only in ( Exodus 10:13 )

and their labour unto the locust;
which devoured the increase of the field, all green grass and trees, all sorts of corn, wheat, barley and rye, and the increase of vineyards, and all fruit trees, on which much labour had been used to manure and cultivate; see ( Revelation 9:3 Revelation 9:4 ) this was the eighth plague.

Psalms 78:46 In-Context

44 He turned their rivers into blood, and they could not drink from their streams.

45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which fed on them, and frogs, which devastated them.

46 He gave their crops to the caterpillar and the fruit of their labor to the locust.

47 He killed their vines with hail and their sycamore-fig trees with a flood.

48 He handed over their livestock to hail and their cattle to lightning bolts.

Footnotes

• [a]. Ps 105:34; Ex 10:14-15